Ethics The Fundamentals

by Driver, Julia

• ISBN13: 9781405111553
• ISBN10: 1405111550
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781118697276
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics. The first volume in the new Fundamentals of Philosophy series. Presents lively, real-world examples and thoughtful discussion of key moral philosophers and their ideas. Constitutes an excellent resource for readers coming to the subject of ethics for the first time.

Author Biography

Julia Driver is Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. She is author of Uneasy Virtue (2001) as well as numerous articles in journals, including The Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Noûs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction	1	(169)
1 The Challenge to Moral Universalism	11	(11)
2 God and Human Nature	22	(18)
3 Classic al Utilitarianism	40	(21)
4 Contemporary Consequentialism	61	(19)
5 Kantian Ethics	80	(22)
6 Social Contract Theory	102	(19)
7 Intuitionism	121	(15)
8 Virtue Ethics	136	(18)
9 Feminist Ethics	154	(16)
10 Moral Nihilism	170	(10)
Index	180